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Open source alternatives to Cursor

Open source alternatives to Cursor, ranked by GitHub stars and freshness.

11 open-source alternatives in the index, ranked by GitHub stars and freshness.

A Agents Coding one click

Aider

Paul Gauthier

Terminal-first AI pair programmer. Edits files in your repo, commits with sensible messages, runs your tests.

open-source

Best for: Engineers who live in the terminal and want a tight, scriptable AI loop

A Agents Coding one click

Claude Code

Anthropic

Anthropic's terminal-native coding agent. Reads your repo, edits files, runs tests, ships PRs.

paid

Best for: Senior engineers who want a real terminal agent, not just autocomplete

A Agents Coding one click

Cline

Open-source autonomous coding agent that lives inside VS Code. BYO model key, watch it work.

open-source

Best for: Engineers who want Cursor-class agent power without leaving stock VS Code

A Agents Coding one click

Codeium

Free AI autocomplete and chat across 40+ IDEs. The volume player in AI coding assistants, now sibling to Windsurf.

freemium

Best for: Individual devs who want free autocomplete, and enterprises needing self-hosted

A Agents Coding low

Continue

Continue.dev

Open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains. Customisable, BYO model, built for enterprise.

freemium

Best for: Teams that need control over models, prompts, and data residency

A Agents Autonomous low

Devin

Cognition Labs

The autonomous software engineer. Plan, write, test, and ship in a sandboxed cloud workstation.

paid

Best for: Teams ready to give a junior engineer-equivalent a ticket and walk away

A Agents Coding one click

GitHub Copilot

GitHub / Microsoft

The original AI pair programmer, now with Agent Mode, Workspaces, and multi-model selection.

freemium

Best for: Large orgs already on GitHub Enterprise

A Agents Coding one click

OpenAI Codex (CLI + cloud agent)

OpenAI

OpenAI's coding agent surface: terminal CLI for local work, cloud agent for parallel autonomous tasks.

paid

Best for: Teams on the OpenAI Enterprise side of the fence

A Agents Coding high

OpenHands

All Hands AI

Open-source autonomous coding agent platform. Spins up a sandboxed dev environment, ships PRs end to end.

open-source

Best for: Teams who want a real autonomous coding agent and can run their own infra

A Agents Coding one click

Windsurf

Codeium

Codeium's IDE-with-an-agent. Cascade flow combines deep context with autonomous multi-file work.

freemium

Best for: Engineers who want continuous agent context, not chat-and-snippet

P Apps Productivity low

Claude Code

Various

Anthropic's agentic coding tool for developers. Claude Code understands your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and helps you ship faster.

freemium

Best for: Developers who want an AI assistant that actively interacts with their codebase and terminal.